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Etibar Elchiyev poses with 50 metal spoons magnetized to his body during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for "Most spoons on a human body" in Tbilisi, Georgia, Dec. 14, 2011.

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Bridgette Muller of Newburgh, New York, Cindy Wilson of Aurora, Ohio, and Linda Silver, of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, (L-R) take part in an attempt to set a new Guinness world record for most Lucy Ricardo lookalikes assembled in one place, in Jamestown, New York, Aug. 6, 2011.

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Staff members try to move a huge suitcase during the 100th Chinese Export Commodities Fair in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong province, Oct. 15, 2006. This suitcase has been certified as the world's largest by the Guinness World Records and measures 5ft 9in by 3ft 9.3in by 1ft 6.1in.

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Chris "The Duchess" Walton shows off her Guinness world record holding fingernails outside the New York Public Library in New York, Sept. 14, 2011. Her nails measure 10 feet 2 inches on her left hand and 9 feet 7 inches on her right hand that she has been growing for 18 years.

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Women dressed in bikinis pose for a photographer on Sydney's Bondi Beach, Sept. 26, 2007. 1,010 bikini clad women posed on Australia's iconic beach, setting a Guinness world record for the largest swimsuit photo shoot.

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A Pygmy Marmoset (Callithrix pygmaea) is seen at a primate rescue and rehabilitation center near Santiago, Aug. 3, 2010. The Pygmy Marmoset is known as the world's smallest monkey.

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An aerial view of the swimming pool at the resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Algarrobo city on the southern coast of Chile, Jan. 21, 2008. Acknowledged by the Guinness World Records as the world's largest swimming pool, the lagoon measures 3,323 ft in length, covers an area of 20 acres, contains 250,000 cubic meters of water and is navigable in small boats.

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A worker adjusts glasses in an attempt to break the world record for the "Largest Champagne Fountain" in the shopping center Wijnegem near Antwerp, Jan. 25, 2008.

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People take part in an attempt to break the Guinness world record for most number of people simultaneously hula-hooping at Thammasat University stadium in Pathum Thani province, Thailand, Feb. 12, 2013.

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Jewgenij Kuschnow of Austria poses for photographers while he sets a World Record in doing splits between two cars for 36.48 seconds along during the Impossibility Challenger in Dachau, Germany, March 30, 2008.

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A five-room flat made of regular beer coasters as the creation is destroyed by its designer and builder Sven Goebel in Vogelsang near the western German town of Schleiden, April 11, 2010.

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Runners dressed in inflatable Sumo costumes take part in a charity 3 mile run at Battersea Park in London, June 19, 2010. Organizers claimed a new world record for a mass Sumo suit gathering at the annual event.

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Thrillseekers take part in a world record-breaking nude rollercoaster ride, to raise money for Southend Hospital's breast care unit, at an amusement park in Southend-on-Sea, southeast England, Aug. 8, 2010.

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The world's longest cigar that stretched 268 feet 4 inches, or most of the length of a football field, is seen in Havana, Cuba, May 3, 2011.

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Estonia's strong man team pulls "Baltic Queen", a 21,746 ton passenger ferry, in Tallinn, May 20, 2011. The athletes set a new world record for the heaviest weight pulled by manpower, organizers said.

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Italian free divers Mike Maric (R) and Ilaria Bonin kiss in an attempt to set the world record for the longest underwater kiss, in an oceanic tank at the Gardaland Sea Life Aquarium in Castelnuovo del Garda, northern italy July 15, 2011. Maric and Bonin set the new world record at three minutes and eight seconds.

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Freddy Nock from Switzerland balances on the ropeway of a cable car leading to Germany's highest mountain, the 9,718 feet Zugspitze, near the southern Bavarian resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Aug. 20, 2011. Nock balanced on the 995 meters long rope to break his own world record, as part of a charity event.

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Dancers perform during an attempt to establish a new world record for the largest amount of dancers participating in a folk dance in Guadalajara, Mexico, Sept. 3, 2011.

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Grower Pete Glazebrook poses for photographers with his onion weighing 17lb, 15.5oz, that now holds the world record for being the heaviest onion, at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show in Harrogate, northern England, Sept. 16, 2011.

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Marie (L) and Gabrielle (R) Vaudremer, 101-year-old Belgian twins, celebrate their birthday at the Chateau Sous-Bois retirement home, Oct. 2, 2011. Marie and Gabrielle were born in 1910 and are the world's oldest pair of twin sisters, according to Guinness World Records.

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The Guinness World Record holder for the "Most Pierced Man," Rolf Bucholz of Germany, poses showing some of his 453 piercings in Dortmund, Germany, Oct. 24, 2011.

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Actors pose with gym equipment on what the Guinness World Records bills as the world's largest 3D painting, at Canary Wharf in London, Nov. 17, 2011.

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Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 72, poses for a picture with his certificate after being announced as the world's shortest man living, as well as shortest person ever measured by the Guinness World Records, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Feb. 26, 2012.

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Jin Songhao drinks beer as he sits in snow during a cold endurance performance in Yanji, China, Jan. 12, 2013. Jin set the Guinness record for the longest time spent in direct full body contact with snow with a time of 46 minutes and seven seconds, local media reported.

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Chinese residents in Costa Rica cook Cantonese fried rice during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Chinatown, in San Jose, Costa Rica, Feb. 12, 2013. Some 52 chefs from various Chinese restaurants in Costa Rica cooked the "world's largest Cantonese fried rice," which weighed 2,965 lbs and served over 7,000 people, according to Isabel Yung, President of the Chinese Residents Association in San Jose.

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An Indian man swallows worms to set a new Guinness world record in the southern Indian city of Madras, Nov. 15, 2003. The man swallowed 200 worms in 20.22 seconds and broke the current record of 94 night crawlers in 30 seconds set by Mark Hogg of America in 2000.

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Franz Paternosta hold up a Christmas tree bauble in the glassblowing company Joska in Bodenmais near Deggendof, Germany, Dec. 17, 2008. The company produced the world's biggest glass Christmas tree decoration with a diameter of 65 centimetre and a weight of 20 kilograms.

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Majed Elmalk, who currently holds the world record for holding the most scorpions in his mouth, poses for a photographer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 22, 2009.

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Stefan Cojocnean, 37, from Romania sets a World Record in 21.38 seconds in skipping on stilts while running 100 metres during the Impossibility Challenger in Dachau, Germany, June 21, 2009.

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Milan Roskopf of Slovakia juggles three chainsaws during the Impossibility Challenger in Dachau, Germany, June 21, 2009.

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Beekeeper She Ping is covered with bees during a challenge to break the world record in Chongqing Municipality, China, April 18, 2012. She Ping, 32, broke the world record by covering his body with 33.1 kilograms of bees (about 331,000 bees), overtaking the last world record of 26.8 kilograms of bees which was attempted by a Jiangxi province beekeeper Ruan Liangming in 2008, local media reported.

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Jordan Michael Geller poses with his collection of the Nike Air Jordan Retro line at the "ShoeZeum" in downtown Las Vegas, Nev., Sept. 25, 2012. Record keepers at the Guinness Book of World Records recently certified that Geller's Shoezeum, a shrine to Nike that he says includes one of every model of Air Jordans ever made, holds the record for the world's largest collection of sneakers, with more than 2,500 pairs, all but eight of which are Nikes.

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Israeli Yitzhak Yazdanpana poses with a cucumber that grew in his garden in Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv, June 30, 2009. Yazdantana said that he hopes the 46.5-inch cucumber will be entered into the Guinness Book of World Records.

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Ashrita Furman attempts to set the Guinness world record for hula hooping with the largest hula hoop in New York's Flushing Meadow Park, July 15, 2005.

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Mexican workers prepare the largest sandwich in the world, in the main Zocalo square in Mexico City, April 24, 2004.

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Brian Spotts of the U.S. works to balance 439 eggs on their ends on the floor of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne, Sept. 14, 2005. Spotts, who lives in Colorado, travelled to Melbourne to attempt a new world egg balancing record which currently stands at 420 eggs.

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The Frrrozen Haute Chocolate is unveiled at the Serendipity-3 restaurant in New York, Nov. 7, 2007 after Guiness World Records researchers determined the $25,000 frozen hot chocolate was the most expensive dessert in the world.

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Shamsher Singh Saroye, an Indian Sikh, displays his Guinness Book of World Records certificate for his 183cm-long beard, in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh, Nov. 7, 2007.

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Paraguayans barbeque beef during an attempt to create the world's biggest barbecue in Mariano Roque Alonso near Asuncion, Paraguay, Oct. 26, 2008. In the attempt to get the Guinness World Record for the "Biggest barbeque in the World", more than 30,000 people grilled 28,000 kilograms of beef on fires covering an area 60 m wide by 100 m long.

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Jyoti Amge,19, from Nagpur, India, is measured by a Guinness World Record official on top of the Empire State Building in New York, Sept. 12, 2013. Standing 24.7 inches tall, Amge has held the title of the "Shortest Living Woman" since her 18th birthday on Dec. 16, 2011.

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A man jumps in a swimming pool filled with pink and green plastic balls during a Guinness World Records attempt of the Largest Ball Pit as part of the "Pink October" campaign at Kerry Hotel in Pudong, Shanghai, China, Oct. 30, 2013. The event, aimed at raising awareness of breast cancer prevention, set the world record with one million balls in the 82 ft. by 41 ft. swimming pool, according to local media.

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"Sweet Pepper Klopek" winces as he breaks the Guinness Book of World Records by lifting a 10-pound sledgehammer from hooks in his cheek during a stunt at the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver, British Columbia, Oct. 30, 2013.

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Rabbi Levi Shemtov (2nd L), executive vice president of American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad), lights the U.S. National Chanukah (Hanukkah) Menorah in front of the White House with U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman (2nd R) and Rabbi Abraham Shemtov (R), national director of American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad), on the Ellipse in front of the White House in Washington, Nov. 27, 2013.

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The world's tallest standing Lego tower at 29.48 meters in front of the city hall in Vienna, Austria, Oct. 5, 2008.

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Sri Lankan couple Nisansala and Nalin smile during their wedding ceremony as they break the Guinness record for a wedding with the most bridesmaids for a bride in Negombo, Sri Lanka, Nov. 8, 2013. With 126 bridesmaids, 25 best men accompanied by 20 page boys and 23 flower girls, the wedding ceremony broke a previous record of having 96 bridesmaids for a bride at a wedding in Thailand.

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Septuagenarian Isobel Varley poses during "II Expotatoo" tattoo fair in Gijon, northern Spain, May 15, 2009. Varley, who was born in 1937, is the most senior tattooed woman in the world according to the Guinness World Records.

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The Guinness World Record flute of ice wine is poured by Jeff Hundertmark of Marynissen Estate Winery (C) and Barry Katzman of Mike Weir Wines (R) as Ed Madronich, chairman of the Wine Council of Ontario (L) looks on, as part of the Niagara Icewine Festival in Niagara Falls, Ontario, January 14, 2011. Over 30 Ontario wineries poured twenty seven litres of icewine into a four-foot-tall flute, setting a new record, local media reported. REUTERS/Doug Benz (CANADA - Tags: SOCIETY) - RTXWKSG